St. Josaphats Church

Schedule of Divine Liturgies


WEEKENDS	SATURDAY EVENING	5:00PM	ENG
	SUNDAY	09:30AM	ENG & UKR
WEEK DAYS	TUES-THURS	8:00AM	UKR

Something you should know

Confessions:	Both daily and Sundays before all Liturgies
Baptisms:	By appointment. Sponsors must be practicing Catholics
Marriage:	Contact your Pastor at least six months in advance. Attendance at PreCana is required.
Religious Education:	Grades K-8 Sundays at 11:15 AM
Ministry to the Sick:	Kindly notify the rectory office about parishioners who are confined to home, hospital, or convalescent home, so that a priest might visit them.
Sunday Bulletin Deadline:	Notices should be phoned in or brought to the Parish Office no later than 12:00 noon on the Monday previous to the publication.
New Parishioners:	Welcome to St. Josaphats! Please stop by the Rectory to introduce yourselves and register. We look forward to meeting you.
Bequests:	In making out your will, kindly remember your church. St Josaphats Ukrainian Catholic Church of Rochester, NY is our legal title.

Something You Should Know

Church Events & Meetings

Community Events

Because of the heightened alert due to the COVID-19 pandemic, St. Josaphat’s Bingo is suspended until April 17, 2020
We thank you for your patronage and for helping us build a wonderful Bingo community.
We have decided to suspend our Bingo operations for the rest of the month of March. This is being done to protect the health of the players and our volunteers. Because of the long gestation period of the virus before symptoms show up (or even the lack of symptoms in those who carry the virus but are not affected) – we cannot risk exposing people to the potential hazard it represents.
As per the County Health Department’s request to limit gatherings of over 50 people – we believe our best path forward is to follow this guidance. We appreciate your understanding with our decision and hope to see you back in April when it is hopefully safer to return to normal group activities.

From the Pastor

THANK YOU

Bingo!! When do we start?

You may be wondering when Bingo starts again?  As the last year showed us – our Friday night fundraiser is very important to the Church’s overall financial health.  After some discussions with Father, Deacon and myself – we have decided to postpone our startup until September.  We looked at 3 main factors affecting this decision:
No guidance from local or state authorities on what rules to follow
The summer is historically slower both in number  of participants and volunteers
Putting together our weekly teams will take time and making sure everyone is comfortable with the processes we implement to keep everyone safe need to be developed.
To work on the third point (the first two are out of our control!) – we will be contacting the existing team members to see if they are still interested.  But we will need new volunteers as there were still too many people having to be there every week.  We need people to sell paper, sell Bell Jar and raffle tickets, concession work and especially callers.  It would be good if we had enough volunteers so that everyone works only once every 4 weeks.  If you are interested or know someone who would be interested – please contact the rectory at this time and I can get you more info.  We are also planning on setting up a new email just for Bingo and will be having a planning meeting in July (with food!!) to gather ideas and put together a team that can again deliver much needed funds to the Church.

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ВІДВІДИНИ ХВОРИХ

If you or a family member are admitted to a hospital for any reason and wish to have a priest come to visit, please notify the parish office. Recent federal privacy laws do not allow hospitals to notify the parish if you are admitted. It is the responsibility of the patient or family to notify the parish office.

Ukrainian Catholic Retreat

Members of Saint Josaphats Ukrainian Catholic Church have a long history of participation in Retreats. For many years men and women of the Parish participated in Men’s Retreats or Women’s Retreats conducted by Roman Rite priests of the Redemptorist Order.

St. Josaphats Festival

The St. Josaphat's Ukrainian Festival was established in 1973 as an effort to introduce Ukrainian Arts and Crafts, Ukrainian food, and Ukrainian music and dance to the Greater Rochester community. Since its